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‘Seducing and Killing Nazis’ challenges us to resist, not adapt to, fascism
August 28, 2019Hannie, Truus, and Freddie are seen as heroes now, but it took decades. They, like many of those they fought alongside, were victims of red-baiting and anti-communism.
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400 years after slavery’s start, economic band-aids won’t solve racial divide
August 27, 2019I It’ll take bold structural reform and the political will to finally achieve economic justice for African Americans, because clearly ending slavery wasn’t enough.
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‘The Putney Debates’: Let the good of the people be the supreme law
August 27, 2019It was clear from the beginning of the English Civil Wars that some revolutionaries—on both sides of the pond—had even more radical ideas than championing Parliament’s authority over the monarchy.
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Saga of 1930s Alabama Communists has lessons for today
August 26, 2019Activists today need to understand that they are building on a long and powerful heritage of working-class and anti-racist organization and struggle in this country.
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Canadian author Stephen Gowans’s fresh view of Korea’s struggle for freedom
August 22, 2019For those wanting to learn about modern Korean history, Stephen Gowans’s Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom is highly recommended.
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